Saturday, June 26, 2010

Part 1: Query 25

Whether the terms crown, livre, pound sterling, etc., are not to be considered as exponents or denominations of such proportion? And whether gold, silver, and paper are not tickets or counters for reckoning, recording, and transferring thereof?

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George Berkeley, 1685–1753

Painting by John Smibert (d. 1751)

About George Berkeley

George Berkeley (12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753), author of The Querist (1735-1737) and also known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne), was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory contends that...

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